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Summary

Abstract:
Tetens was a journalist and political pamphleteer who also wrote under the pseudonym Anton Pettenkofer. This collection contains correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, and information about the anti-Nazi movement.
Extent:
50 cubic ft.
Language:
German , English .
Preferred citation:

Preferred citation for this material is as follows: Identification of specific item, series, box, folder, Frederich Tete Harrens Tetens Papers, 1925-1976. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University at Albany, State University of New York (hereafter referred to as the Tetens Papers).

Background

Scope and Content:

The collection contains correspondence with Bernard Baruch, Emil Ludwig, William Langer, Louis Nizer, Friedrich Wilhelm Forster, Harold L. Ickes, and others, 1925-1976, manuscripts, outlines, and translations (German, English, and Spanish) of published and unpublished books and articles, 1937-1972, research reports written for Bernard Baruch and for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 1939-1943, research notes, pamphlets and other ephemera on National Socialism, pan Germanism, Anti-Semitism, the German American Bund, postwar Germany, Cold War, and peace issues, 1937-1972. This collection also includes propaganda of the Deutsche Liga for Volkerbund and various war and peace groups, collected in Aschaffenburg by Edgar Davidsburg, 1915-1919, and printed materials on the German tobacco industry, ca. 1890-1930. There are files of the Philipp Reemstma case, 1925-1933; records of the American I. G. Farben Chemical Corporation, 1933-1939; papers of Argentinian anti-Nazi journalist Reinhard Maurer, 1937-1945; drawings by the Argentinian anti-Nazi artist Clment Moreau, 1937-1939; correspondence and writings of emigre writer Friedrich Wilhelm Forster (1869-1963) about pan Germanism and National Socialism, 1940-1951 and manuscripts by the French anti-Nazi writer Andre Chradame, 1941.

This collection also includes correspondence of Isidore Lipschutz as an officer of the Society for the Prevention of World War III, 1938-1956; case files pertaining to Victor F. Ridder/New York Staats Zeitung and Chicago Tribune libel suits, 1943-1945, 1951; correspondence of German Chilean refugee Pablo Hesslein, 1952-53; and records of several anti-Vietnam War groups based in New Jersey, 1968-1972.

Tetens also retained correspondence of Rev. Guy Emery Shipler, editor of the New York City based religious magazine Churchman, concerning obscenity in films, Communism, National Socialism, religious freedom, and other issues affecting the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1922-1966.

In addition, the Tetens Papers include an autobiography, diaries, correspondence, and reports of his wife Eugenia Tetens covering their escape from Germany and early life in exile, 1933-1945. Of approximately 700 linear feet of clippings in Tetens's "Library on Germanic and Related International Problems," which he amassed between 1937 and 1972, about 15 feet concerning emigres and Nazis in North and South America have been retained.

Biographical / Historical:

Friedrich Tete Harens Tetens was born in Germany in 1899. Tetens became a journalist in Berlin and fled for political reasons to Switzerland in 1934. He lived in Argentina from 1936 to 1938 and in the United States from 1939 onward. Tetens was a journalist and political pamphleteer who also wrote under the pseudonym Anton Pettenkofer. Tetens died in 1976.

Acquisition information:
This collection was donated by Tete H. Tetens, Jr. and Ingrid Tetens Waithe, two of Friedrich Tete Harens Tetens' children, in March 1982.
Processing information:

Processed by unprocessed.

Arrangement:

The collection is unprocessed and is likely disorganized. Individual items may be difficult to find.

Physical location:
The materials are located onsite in the department.

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RESTRICTIONS:

Access to this collection is restricted because it is unprocessed. Portions of the collection may contain recent administrative records and/or personally identifiable information. While it is likely that portions of the collection may be viewed, access must be managed by an archivist.

TERMS OF ACCESS:

The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of copyright. Whenever possible, the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives will provide information about copyright owners and other restrictions, but the legal determination ultimately rests with the researcher. Requests for permission to publish material from this collection should be discussed with the Head of Special Collections and Archives.

PREFERRED CITATION:

Preferred citation for this material is as follows: Identification of specific item, series, box, folder, Frederich Tete Harrens Tetens Papers, 1925-1976. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University at Albany, State University of New York (hereafter referred to as the Tetens Papers).

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